ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

Tower PC case used as 'creative cavity' by drug importer

(2024/10/31)

Motherboard missing, leaving space for a million hits of meth



Microsoft turning away AI training workloads – inferencing makes better money

(2024/10/31)

Azure's acceleration continues, but so do costs



Apple throws shade on pokey AI PCs, claims its maxed out M4 chips are 4x faster

(2024/10/31)

Busy week for Cupertino sees shrunken Mac minis, updated lappies, and new SoCs



Chinese attackers accessed Canadian government networks – for five years

(2024/10/31)

India makes it onto list of likely threats for the first time



Meta spruiks benefits of open sourcing Llama models – to its own bottom line

(2024/10/31)

It's not like Zuck needs the coin despite increased infrastructure spend, headcount, losses on VR



Equinix to pad Thai coffers with $500 million investment

(2024/10/31)

Another Asian country declares ambition to be a tech hub



US Army should ditch tanks for AI drones, says Eric Schmidt

(2024/10/31)

And what do you know, Google's former CEO just so happens to have a commercial solution



Windows Themes zero-day bug exposes users to NTLM credential theft

(2024/10/30)

Plus a free micropatch until Redmond fixes the flaw



Reddit CEO thanks AI for helping the site finally turn a profit

(2024/10/30)

After 19 years of losses, all it took was a machine translation of its posts to get out of the red



Sketchy financials send Supermicro auditors running for the hills

(2024/10/30)

If SMCI is the AI Enron, Ernst & Young wants nothing to do with them



Combustion engines grind Linus Torvalds' gears

(2024/10/30)

Just like his once famous temper, Linux kernel creator also ditched classic engines ... in favor of EVs



Cloud repatriation officially a trend... for specific workloads

(2024/10/30)

It's not a mass exodus, say analysts, but biz bods are bringing things down to earth



Fired Disney staffer accused of hacking menu to add profanity, wingdings, removes allergen info

(2024/10/30)

If you're gonna come at the mouse, you need to be better at hiding your tracks



Russian spies use remote desktop protocol files in unusual mass phishing drive

(2024/10/30)

The prolific Midnight Blizzard crew cast a much wider net in search of scrummy intel



Musk, Bezos need just 90 minutes to match your lifetime carbon footprint, says Oxfam

(2024/10/30)

Between jets, yachts and investments in destructive companies, billionaires are speed running the apocalypse



Brit Apple semi supplier IQE's CEO departs amid reshuffle

(2024/10/30)

Big personnel changes happening as semiconductor materials seller looks set to list Taiwan biz in 2025



Beijing claims it's found 'underwater lighthouses' that its foes use for espionage

(2024/10/30)

Release the Kraken!



OpenAI reportedly asks Broadcom for help with custom inferencing silicon

(2024/10/30)

Fabbed by TSMC, needed for … it's a secret



No-Nvidias networking club convenes in search of open GPU interconnect

(2024/10/30)

Ultra Accelerator Link consortium promises 200 gigabits per second per lane spec will debut in Q1 2025



China refreshes crew of its 'Celestial Palace' space station

(2024/10/30)

Incoming trio includes first female engineer, a returning taikonaut, and one newbie



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